"For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair."

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Source : "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”

Source : Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

Source : "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.
“People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.”
“I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.”
“I thawt I thaw a putty tat.â€ â€œI did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. â€œNow, then, luv, letâ€™s get down to business”
“We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.”

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